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==English==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈɹɛkən/}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-reckon.ogg|a=US}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɛkən|s=2}}

===Etymology 1===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*h₃reǵ-}}
From {{inh|en|enm|rekenen}}, from {{inh|en|ang|recenian|t=to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon}} and {{m|ang|ġerecenian|t=to explain, recount, relate}}; both from {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*rekanōn|t=to count, explain}}, from {{der|en|gmw-pro|*rekan|t=swift, ready, prompt}}, from {{der|en|ine-pro|*h₃reǵ-|t=to make straight or right}}.

Cognate with {{cog|sco|rekkin||to enumerate, mention, narrate, rehearse, count, calculate, compute}}, {{cog|stq|reekenje|t=to calculate, figure, reckon}}, {{cog|fy|rekkenje||to account, tally, calculate, figure}}, {{cog|nl|rekenen||to count, calculate, reckon}}, {{cog|nds-de|reken||to reckon}}, {{cog|de|rechnen||to count, reckon, calculate}}, {{cog|da|regne||to calculate}}, {{cog|sv|räkna||to count, calculate, reckon}}, {{cog|is|reikna||to calculate}}, {{cog|la|rectus|t=straight, right}}. See also {{l|en|reck}}, {{l|en|reach}}.

====Alternative forms====
* {{alter|en|reckin||dialectal}}
* {{alter|en|recken||obsolete}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# To [[count]]; to [[enumerate]]; to [[number]]; also, to [[compute]]; to [[calculate]].
#* {{RQ:King James Version|book=Leviticus|chapter=27|verse=18|passage=then the priest shall '''reckon''' unto him the money according to the years that remain}}
#* {{RQ:Addison Italy
|passage=I '''reckoned''' above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church.}}
#* {{quote-book|1=en|year=1886|translator=H.L. Br&aelig;kstad|author=w:Peter Christen Asbj&oslash;rnsen|title=Folk and Fairy Tales|page=175|passage=For all the king counted and pointed and '''reckoned''', he could not find as much as a hair of them missing.}}
# To count as in a number, [[rank]], or [[series]]; to [[estimate]] by rank or [[quality]]; to [[place]] by [[estimation]]; to [[account]]; to [[esteem]]; to [[repute]].
#* {{RQ:King James Version|book=Isaiah|chapter=53|verse=12|passage=He was '''reckoned''' among the transgressors}}
#* {{RQ:Milton Samson Agonistes|text=For him I '''reckon''' not in high estate Whom long descent of birth, Or the sphere of fortune, raises}}
# To [[charge]], [[attribute]], or [[adjudge]] to one, as having a certain quality or [[value]].
#* {{RQ:KJV|Romans|4|9|text={{...}} faith was '''reckoned''' to Abraham for righteousness.}}
#* {{RQ:Hawthorne Scarlet Letter|10|passage=Without her eccentricities being '''reckoned''' to her for a crime.}}
# {{lb|en|colloquial}} To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to [[think]]; to [[suppose]]; -- followed by an objective clause
#: {{ux|en|I '''reckon''' he won't try that again.}}
#* {{RQ:KJV|Romans|8|18|text=For I '''reckon''' that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.}}
#* {{RQ:KJV|Romans|6|11|text=Likewise '''reckon''' ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=1962|month=October|author=Brian Haresnape|title=Focus on B.R. passenger stations|journal=Modern Railways|page=250|text=The working life span of a passenger carriage, on average, is between 30 and 35 years, so a steady replacement takes place quite naturally. The life span of a station, however, cannot be so easily '''reckoned''', for it depends largely on the rehabilitation and upkeep of the existing structures.}}
# To [[reckon with]] something or somebody or not, i.e to [[reckon without]] something or somebody: to [[take into account]], [[deal with]], [[consider]] or not, i.e. to [[misjudge]], [[ignore]], not take into account, not deal with, not consider or [[fail]] to consider; e.g. [[reckon without one's host]]
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1907|title=The Spell of the Yukon|author=w:Robert W. Service|passage=There are hardships that nobody '''reckons''';<br/>There are valleys unpeopled and still;<br/>There’s a land—oh, it beckons and beckons,<br/>And I want to go back—and I will.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
# To come to an accounting; to [[draw up]] or [[settle]] [[account]]s; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

=====Synonyms=====
* {{sense|count}} {{l|en|number}}, {{l|en|enumerate}}
* {{sense|calculate}} {{l|en|calculate}}, {{l|en|compute}}
* {{sense|attribute a value}} {{l|en|value}}, {{l|en|rate}}, {{l|en|esteem}}
* {{sense|conclude, suppose}} {{l|en|think}}, {{l|en|believe}}, {{l|en|guess}}, {{l|en|suppose}}, {{l|en|esteem}}
* {{sense|make an enumeration}} {{l|en|enumerate}}, {{l|en|compute}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{der-top}}
* {{l|en|chinny reckon}}
*{{l|en|dead reckon}}
* {{l|en|outreckon}}
* {{l|en|reckoner}}
* {{l|en|reckon for}}
* {{l|en|reckoning}}
* {{l|en|reckon on}}
* {{l|en|reckon out}}
* {{l|en|reckon up}}
* {{l|en|reckon upon}}
* {{l|en|reckon with}}
* {{l|en|reckon without}}
* {{l|en|reckon without one's host}}
* {{l|en|to reckon with}}
{{der-bottom}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|смятам}}, {{t+|bg|изчислявам}}
* Burmese: {{t+|my|တွက်}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|comptar}}
* Cebuano: {{t|ceb|suma}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|kalkuli}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|laskea}}, {{t+|fi|luetella}}, {{t+|fi|räknätä}} {{qualifier|dialectal}}
* French: {{t+|fr|compter}}, {{t+|fr|calculer}}
* German: {{t+|de|berechnen}}, {{t+|de|errechnen}}, {{t+|de|rechnen}}, {{t+|de|ausrechnen}}, {{t+|de|zusammenrechnen}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|contar}}, {{t+|pt|calcular}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|calcula}}, {{t+|ro|socoti}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|счита́ть}}, {{t+|ru|подсчи́тывать}}
* Serbo-Croatian: {{t+|sh|izračunati}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|contar}}, {{t+|es|calcular}}, {{t+|es|censar}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|tính toán}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|חשבונען|tr=kheshbenen}}, {{t|yi|רעכענען}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|смятам}}, {{t+|bg|считам}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|lukea}}, {{t+|fi|laskea}}
* French: {{t+|fr|compter}}, {{t+|fr|estimer}}
* German: {{t+|de|zurechnen}}, {{t|de|zu etwas rechnen}}, {{t|de|zu etwas zählen}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|estimar}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|счита́ть}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|contar}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|считам за}}
* Cebuano: {{t|ceb|suma}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|lukea}}
* German: {{t+|de|zuschreiben}}, {{t+|de|zusprechen}}, {{t+|de|beimessen}}, {{t+|de|verleihen}}, {{t+|de|anerkennen}}
* Mongolian: {{t+|mn|үзэх|sc=Cyrl}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|julgar}}, {{t+|pt|considerar}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|atribuir}}, {{t+|es|adjudicar}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|colloquial: to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|разчитам на}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|creure}}, {{t+|ca|considerar}}
* Chinese: {{t+|zh|研判}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|veronderstellen}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|päättää}}, {{t+|fi|arvata}}, {{t+|fi|arvella}}, {{t+|fi|arvuutella}}
* French: {{t+|fr|estimer}}, {{t+|fr|considérer}}
* German: {{t+|de|schätzen}}, {{t+|de|vermuten}}, {{t+|de|mutmaßen}}, {{t+|de|rechnen mit}}, {{t|de|sich ausrechnen}}
* Gothic: {{t|got|𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌰𐌽}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|reputare}}, {{t+|it|stimare}}, {{t+|it|valutare}}
* Mongolian: {{t+|mn|үзэх|sc=Cyrl}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|concluir}}, {{t+|pt|considerar}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|полага́ть}}, {{t+|ru|счита́ть}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|suponer}}, {{t+|es|concluir}}, {{t+|es|tantear}}, {{t+|es|estimar}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|tính toán}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|מיינען}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|броя}}, {{t+|bg|преброявам}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|laskea}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|calcular}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|оправям сметките}}
* German: {{t+|de|abrechnen}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{checktrans-top}}
* Dutch: {{t-check|nl|rekenen tot}}
* German: {{t+|de|abschätzen}}, {{t+|de|kalkulieren}}
* Korean: {{t+check|ko|헤아리다|sc=Kore}}
* Nahuatl: {{t-check|nah|tlapoalli}}
{{trans-bottom}}

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|informal}} An [[impression]] or [[opinion]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2009| title=Borstal Boy |author=Brendan Behan | page=264| passage=Shaggy asked him, ' 'Ow dew yew a '''reckon''' on your turnips, Fred?'}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2020| title=Reveille|author=R. H. van de Weert | page=| passage=I wouldn't get much of an idea what the site was like until daylight but it was close to the cook fires and the food stalls and entertainment tents so, my '''reckons''' it was perfect.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2020| title=The Vision of M.E.|author=
Marvin J. Everheart | page=| passage=I have beckoned vigorously & my '''reckons''' have passed into a vast sea of stones, rearing the strong feelings, the dawn of light emerged; surfacing the depths of the deep & the depths was beckoning coldly. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2023| title=Birnam Wood|author=Eleanor Catton| page=37| passage=Here's my reckon on mass incarceration.}}

===Etymology 2===

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|dialectal}} {{alternative form of|en|rackan|t=chain}}

===See also===
* {{l|en|calculate}}
* {{l|en|guess}}

===References===
* {{R:Webster 1913}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=ceknor|conker|rocken}}

{{cln|en|raising verbs|reporting verbs}}